Meet T-Rex: Nvidia's Titan RTX is the new graphics card mega-monster

When the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti launched with a sky-high $1,000 theoretical price tag and $1,200-plus actual price tag, some people speculated that it simply took the place of the Titan at the top of Nvidia's graphics card lineup. On Monday, Nvidia revealed the Titan RTX, a $2,499 behemoth that the company also calls "T-Rex." Nvidia's flagship TU102 GPU packs 72 dedicated RT cores for real-time ray tracing and 576 tensor cores so beloved by machine learning tasks. While Nvidia's announcement didn't specify the Titan RTX's CUDA core count, an Nvidia spokesperson confirmed that it holds more than the GeForce card. That gives the newest Titan fewer total CUDA cores than its predecessor--the Titan V crammed in 5,120--but the Turing GPU's CUDA cores are much more effective than the ones inside older Pascal GPUs.